Follow the standard short forms

"Send me the documents ASAP"."PF the mail". "MS will be a better option"."A COM degree will propel your career growth".Can a novice make out what are 'ASAP','PF','MS','COM' and many others? Or can we decode some of the short forms that are used frequently in the office? I faced some of these small problems in my career.I dug into the meaning of the sentences and applied hit and trial method to undestand the real meaning. It took some time initially but now I am used to it. Whatever be the case don't the short forms really create confusion which are not the standard ones? 'ASAP' means as soon as possible. 'PF' stands for please forward. But what does 'MS' mean if you analyse the statement written above? Is it Microsoft or Master of Science? What is a 'COM'? Does the sentence mean commercedegree or computer degree? I leave it to the speaker.

Why do people use such short forms while mailing? Are they really in a hurry to frame an email in seconds or are they impatient? Standard short forms like UNO,WHO,ASEAN etc are known to all. We don't have to waste time to decode the meaning. But I feel that usage of 'PF','ASAP','MS' and 'COM' etc doesn't contribute to good written communication skills. What will happen if one uses such short forms in an email sent to an important person who is unaware ofof the actual meaning? The conversation consumes time to meet the objective. I believe the usage of the full forms does not kill time but it makes a written statement more meaningful.In contrast, the usage of these short formsdoes not prove one's smartness but the habit enables one to create confusions. Stick to the standards and makeothers feel comfortable.

Traffic rules - Are we really conscious of it?

Every day a question frustrates me. "When will this end? Is it nearby or there is no end to it?". The question relates to Bangalore traffic.My first visit to the Silicon City of India was in 2003. I came here to undergo Industrial Training as a part of my sixth semester engineering curriculum. I found it a very pleasant place due to its weather. Indeed it is. Now I have been settled in Bangalore for the last 46 months.I find the city changing day by day. The best part is the IT boom.The sad part is the drastic weather change and the worst part is the spiraling traffic.Traffic is increasing day by day. It adds to road congestion.People travel hours in buses and personal vehicles to reach office. A colleague once said that if this traffic mystery continues then he would have to spend half of his life in buses.

Even though new highways and roads are constructed, road congestion seems to be a burning problem.People break the traffic rules and take short cuts to reach office in a hurry which doesn't solve one's problem but poses more problems for others.Even though we complain about traffic jam, do we ever question ourselves that how difficult it is follow the rules? I guess that it doesn't take much pain to be disciplined. On one Sunday evening I read an article in Times Of India where the writer pointed out the similarity among New York, London and Bangalore. The lanes of these foreign cities are narrower than that of Bangalore.The number of vehicles are almost the same. But the difference lies in the sense of road discipline.In the same edition Kiran Majumdar Shaw, CEO of Biocon, expressed her discontent over the road indiscipline that we practise everyday.If we take the proper left and right turns we can allow others to be comfortable and thereby we can help to reduce the intensity of the problem.

Road accident is a common news in every newspaper in Bangalore. A little carelessness ends a life. People have enough sense to sort out this congestion problem. To realise it we just have to be disciplined , a lesson we learnt in school. We only have carry out the experiment in our daily life.